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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE WORLD OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi The historians who contributed to The Oxford Illustrated History of the World are all distinguishedauthoritiesintheir field.Theyare: PAOLOLUCA BERNARDINI- Universitàdegli Studidell’Insubria JEREMYBLACK- UniversityofExeter JOHN BROOKE- OhioStateUniversity DAVIDCHRISTIAN- MacquarieUniversity FELIPEFERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO - UniversityofNotreDame CLIVE GAMBLE- UniversityofSouthampton MARTIN JONES-University ofCambridge MANUELLUCENAGIRALDO-CentroSuperiordeInvestigacionesCientíficas,Madrid IANMORRIS- Stanford University DAVIDNORTHRUP- BostonCollege ANJANASINGH - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF T H E W O R L D Edited by FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©OxfordUniversityPress CopyrightinChapterandChapter©FelipeFernández-Armesto Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin Impression: Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber: ISBN –––– PrintedinItalyby L.E.G.O.S.p.A. LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi C O N T E N T S List of Maps ix List of Tables xi Introduction PART Children of the Ice The Peopling of the World and the Beginnings of Cultural Divergence, c. , to c. , years ago . Humanity from the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species Clive Gamble . The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture Felipe Fernández-Armesto PART Of Mud and Metal Divergent Cultures from the Emergence of Agriculture to the ‘Crisis of the Bronze Age’, c. , –c. , . Into a Warming World Martin Jones ’ . The Farmers Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities Felipe Fernández-Armesto OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi vi Contents PART The Oscillations of Empires From the ‘Dark Age’ of the Early First Millennium to the Mid-Fourteenth Century . Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death John Brooke . Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, – David Northrup . Growth: Social and Political Organizations, – Ian Morris PART The Climatic Reversal Expansion and Innovation amid Plague and Cold from the Mid-Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries . A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, – David Northrup . Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World Manuel Lucena Giraldo . Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World Anjana Singh PART The Great Acceleration Accelerating Change in a Warming World, c. –c. . The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries David Christian OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi Contents vii . The Modern World and its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters, and Thought, – Paolo Luca Bernardini . Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: fl Relationships, Institutions, and Con icts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to American Supremacy Jeremy Black Epilogue Further Reading Picture Acknowledgements Index OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/7/2018,SPi L I S T O F M A P S . Placesnamedin thechapter. . Biodiversityhotspots. . ‘Factories’wherenewanimals repeatedlyevolved. . Homininandhumansettlement. . PeterForster’s geneticmap. . Placesnamedinthe chapter. . NicolaiVavilov’s‘Centresof Diversity’. . Placesnamedin thechapter. . BuddhistExpansiontoabout . . (a)and(b) Placesnamedin thechapter. . Globaldistribution ofsocialandpoliticalorganizations in. . Globaldistributionofsocial andpolitical organizationsin. . Globaldistribution ofsocialandpoliticalorganizations in. . Majoragriculturalexpansions, to. . Placesnamedinthe chapter.
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